agenoun

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advancing
age
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old-timer
oldie
pension fund
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Examples of old age

old age
The impact on the need for care and the costs entailed by women's greater morbidity in oldage is considerable.
These conservatives also supported general revenue expenditures as well as oldage pensions.
But the higher the number of children in the household in 2005, the lower is the probability of providing for oldage using company pensions.
He then follows the lifespan from childhood through adolescence and adulthood and finally to oldage.
This paper draws on interviews with people over the age of 75 to explore the nature of attitudes to death in oldage.
Losing and gaining in oldage : changes in personal network size and social support in a four-year longitudinal study.
So, there is still a concern that women are less well provided for in oldage than men.
These patterns however are not discussed in contexts relevant to older people and oldage.
However, within the context of oldage as a social category, such conflicts carry particular implications in relation to questions of power and resistance.
The users' expressions showed awareness of the signs of normal ageing and created distance from the perceived threat of oldage.
The book expounds this argument by tracing the history of oldage as a disciplinary product.
In the fog of the medicalised obfuscation of oldage, this book sounds a loud warning blast.
The excellent summary is also a critique of the ' microfication ' of oldage.
The reconstruction of oldage as a time of agelessness is the epitome of such denial.
Only rarely do women's historians or historians of oldage mention older women who did not require public charity or care.
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